Pandora's box

From 'Stories of the Gods and Heroes' by Sally Benson, 1940, Dial Press. Reprinted in Colliers Junior Classics, 'Legends of Long Ago', 1962.

After thousands of years, Pandora's Box was finally opened. The power of the Gods unleashed.Gaia about Pandora's Box. Pandora's Box is a powerful weapon that was used to imprisoned all evils throughout the world. It was originally used by Kratos to kill Ares, but when it was opened, all the evils inside the Box infected the Gods of Olympus. It is a recurring weapon in the God of War video game franchise, which is loosely based on Greek mythology. After Titanomachy (the Great War) ended, Zeus…

# PANDORA was the first woman who was formed out of clay by the gods. Zeus commanded Hephaistos and the other gods to create a woman, Pandora, and endow her with the beauty and cunning. He then delivered her to Epimetheus, the foolish younger brother of Prometheus, for a bride. When he had received her into his house, Pandora opened the box which Zeus had given her as a wedding present, and released the swarm of evil spirits trapped within.

Illustration created for Mighty Heroes Card Game@ BomBit Games

Frederick Stuart Church (1842 – 1924). Opening Of Pandora's Box. According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity—although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod—leaving only Hope inside once Pandora had closed it again.

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Here is last week's Colour Collective. The chosen colour was 'Pearl' which I thought was fun because it could really be used any way at all. I decided to illustrate my interpretation of Pandora's Box! C xxx

It's a cool story for her because her name is hope and it's like.... Is hope good or one of the evils from the box?

ILLUSTRATIONS FOR A NEW EDITION OF THE WORLD-RENOWNED CLASSIC BY EDITH HAMILTON.First published by Little, Brown and Company, 1942. Reissued, March 2013. Forty eight wood engravings: twenty five chapter heads and twenty three full page illustrations.